► 名詞
字 [じ] meaning: letter rank: 1
☆ アルファベットを使う欧米で字が読めない人がいるというのは不思議だ ⇨ It is somewhat strange that there are illiterate people in the US and Europe where alphabets are used
☆ 彼の字は汚すぎて読めない ⇨ His letters are, handwriting is, so bad and cannot be read
☆ 私の名前も彼女の名前も「ともこ」だが字が違う ⇨ My name and her name are both “Tomoko” but with different Kanji letters
文字 [(1)もじ] meaning: letter rank: 1
☆ 象形文字 ⇨ Hieroglyphs
大文字 [おおもじ] meaning: letter rank: 3
☆ 文は全て大文字で書かれている ⇨ The entire sentence is written in upper case
小文字 [こもじ] meaning: letter rank: 3
☆ 文は全て小文字で書かれている ⇨ The entire sentence is written in lower case
文字化け [もじばけ] meaning: letter rank: 3
☆ 日本語が文字化けしている ⇨ Japanese texts are all garbled up (because of a wrong encoding)